Missed our three year anniversary celebration for Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000? You can still find the recording at www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

See this quoted thread for highlights from the lead author of this important paper! My own key thoughts and connections will be in a thread right here, too. 🧵

Affirmations from today~ Solidarity: Together, we are building the world our ancestors dreamed and our children deserve.

Thank you @timnitgebru.bsky.social joining me on #FiresideFedi #Peertube #VOD - video.firesidefedi.live/w/ttu29pxU9D... #Castopod #Fedicast - audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefed... #Youtube - www.youtube.com/@btfree_org firesidefedi.live #FsF #people #fedi #fediverse #open #internet #podcast

Join us now as @alex and @emilymbender celebrate THREE years and 250,000 downloads of The Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast! 🎉🎉 🎉

Contenta de que perfiles como el de @milamiceli.bsky.social sea reconocido como uno de los más influyentes en temas de IA time.com/collections/... Su trabajo en @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social ha arrojado luz sobre condiciones laborales de personas que trabajan en la sombra de la IA,en lo NO mágico

The DWI team attended this year’s INDL-8 Conference! Laurenz and Camilla shared theoretical and methodological insights on Data Workers’ Inquiry, while our amazing collaborators Kauna and Ephantus led a powerful panel on workers organizing and unionizing. 💪

“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”

I asked @alexhanna.bsky.social of @dairinstitute.bsky.social if she'd join me for Power Lunch, a "fake" lunch where we remotely "dine out" and solve all our problems I asked her where she wanted to "go" Her response: "a very cursed place" Read w/ a SENSE OF URGENCY: www.esckey.co/ridicule-as-...

Send us your questions for Friday's podcast birthday party!

¿Qué hay detrás de la carrera por la AGI? Un paquete de ideologías agrupadas en el acrónimo TESCREAL (transhumanismo, Extropianismo, singularitarismo, cosmismo, Racionalismo, Altruismo Efectivo y largoplacismo). Ideas de una secta a la que se le está dando el control del mundo.

Fascinating to be included here. I stand by what I said— it is natural for anyone to be drawn to escapism and fantastical thinking in response to fear and uncertainty. Billionaires are not immune. I'll add: Their fantasies aren't better, worthier, or truer than yours. apnews.com/article/arti...

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

Follow this account for Surveillance Satch related updates👇

Yessss

Anyone here familiar with #SurveillanceWatch ? www.surveillancewatch.io Check it out because the list of companies and VC firms will surprise and horrify. The characteristics of data means they're quite literally #everywhere and #everyone. and you thought it was a fitness app.

We just launched a new version featuring major updates with significant improvements to filtering and search, detailed entity analysis views, better visualization of connections between entities and investors, a more accessible lite version, and much more. www.surveillancewatch.io

We just launched a new version of the Surveillance Watch platform with improved filtering and search, detailed entity analysis views, better visualization of connections between entities & investors, a more accessible lite version etc. Have a look at the latest updates at www.surveillancewatch.io

MAIHT3k birthday party has (alas) been postponed. But the good news is that you have more time to send us your questions! Questions here: forms.gle/v874t25Qmr5p... Live stream here (9/19, noon Pacific): twitch.tv/dair_institute w/@alexhanna.bsky.social

And join the livestream celebration on Monday 9/15, noon Pacific here: twitch.tv/dair_institute

Come for the snark about over-priced dining and/or the derby fun ... stay for @alexhanna.bsky.social 's wisdom about how to handle & deflate the 'AI' bubble www.esckey.co/ridicule-as-...

Join us tomorrow! @alexhanna.bsky.social and I will be celebrating the pod's 3rd birthday 🥳

Monday September 15, we'll celebrate the 3rd anniversary of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000! @alexhanna.bsky.social & @emilymbender.bsky.social will reflect on making the podcast & answering listener questions. ✴️ Send questions: forms.gle/v874t25Qmr5p... ✴️ Join us @ twitch.tv/dair_institute

"@alexhanna.bsky.social spends an incredible amount of her time working with sharp objects, metaphorically speaking. On Monday September 15, she will commemorate three years of wielding them on the anniversary episode of Mystery AI Hype Theatre 3000, ... www.esckey.co/ridicule-as-...

And the energy of having people in a room together was so powerful! I loved tearing up magazines and talking and drawing and connecting with you all. Stay tuned for more: @dairfutures.bsky.social

The first in-person Possible Futures workshop was amazing! As I run more of these, it strikes me how many themes are so consistent: desire for ecological restoration. Connection. Autonomy. Privacy. Dignity. Leisure. Peace. Again and again, we find common ground and shared visions. 🌱

Poor quality and biased training data hinder the development of language AI tools, writes Kathleen Siminyu, researcher at the @dairinstitute.bsky.social​, in an article for #DWFreedom. https://akademie.dw.com/en/mind-the-gap-building-inclusive-ai-for-african-languages/a-73693134

A lot of folks aren’t fully seeing the full scope of repercussions that this settlement does bring. Again, while not perfect, it’s not a bad start to the many more cases to come! Anyway here are further thoughts! :)

And now to continue to look forward to how all 40+ copyright infringement cases of GenAi resolve in the coming years (Including other cases Anthropic is still in!)! Judging by this kind of start, I’d be nervous if I were in a GenAi company.

Wow! So while I still wish this case would’ve gone to trial, and believe the amount given per work should have been EVEN higher, $1.5 billion in settlement AND the destruction of infringing datasets is still a fantastic start! Congratulations to all those involved as these things are not easy!

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Who is really fueling your #AI? 🤔 It's not just code & algorithms. Behind every LLM are millions of people, often in invisible roles. Join us, @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, @milamiceli.bsky.social @superrrnetwork.bsky.social & on Sept. 17 to hear directly from data workers! 🔗 buff.ly/2ug32Bx

🏅 Weizenbaum Researcher @milamiceli.bsky.social was included on TIME's list of Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence of 2025. Congratulations on this distinction and your incredible work for and with data workers, Mila! 🎉 #TIME100AI #AI #DataWork Find out more 👉 buff.ly/JWOejRA

Huge congrats to @milamiceli.bsky.social 🌟 This is a recognition to all of us making the Data Workers’ Inquiry project!

🎉 Latin America continues to be a strong driving force for AI in 2025 🦾 KHIPU is thrilled to communicate that three people from Latin America have been featured in TIME100 AI 2025!! The list of the 100 most influential people in AI according to TIME magazine, include:

Just discovered this fantastic talk by @chrissimon.au on the ethics and risks of AI in its current (and future) form. Presenting it in this way to software developers and engineers was such a good move too. I just wish it had as many views as all the other AI-related videos on youtube.

rules @dairinstitute.bsky.social www.dair-institute.org/research-phi...

¿Recuerdan la famosa Carta Abierta (Pause Giant AI Experiments) publicada en 2023 para pausar el desarrollo de la IA por 6 meses? 🤦‍♀️ Cada tanto aparece una nueva carta abierta y una nueva narrativa alarmista para seguir desviando el foco de atención de lo importante. @dairinstitute.bsky.social

that is predicated on labor extraction and harm. Is it “hidden” labor or do we just refuse to become educated on what is happening? I wanted to give a s/o to @dairinstitute.bsky.social for providing us with so many materials to learn from. If you haven’t already I urge you to check the website out.

🧵and follows worth your time.👇🏻

«Ya no quería hablar en nombre de los trabajadores de datos ni sobre ellos. Quería crear un espacio en el que pudieran contar sus propias historias y en el que la investigación fuera una forma de pensamiento y organización colectivos, no de extracción» ✊ Milagros Miceli bsky.app/profile/timn...

Thrilled to welcome 13 data workers to the transnational assembly co-hosted by @superrrnetwork.bsky.social & @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, and honored to give a keynote at the public event on the 17th. Join us @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social! Registration: tickets.weizenbaum-institut.de/jl89e/

📣 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘! We're excited to co-organize a transnational data worker assembly together with @superrrnetwork.bsky.social on September 16-17 in Berlin. While the first day is closed-door, we’ll host a public event on the 17th. 👉 Program and registration: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

Milagros does incredible work and if you've not read any of it, today is the day! (congrats!)

🎉🎉🎉 Friends, I’m going to take ask a minute of your time to celebrate @milamiceli.bsky.social who I met through @alexhanna.bsky.social in 2022, just a couple of months after we launched @dairinstitute.bsky.social 🧵

🎉 Congratulations to our own @milamiceli.bsky.social for being on TIME's 100 list of "innovators, leaders, & thinkers reshaping our world through groundbreaking advances in" AI. Mila is recognized for her innovative Data Workers' Inquiry, a worker led investigation of the impact of data work. 🧵

En tiempos de cientificidio y oscurantismo en mi país, estoy orgullosa de ser la primera científica argentina reconocida por la revista TIME como una de las 100 personas más influyentes a nivel mundial en el campo de la inteligencia artificial. time.com/collections/...

I am thrilled to be recognized by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people worldwide in the field of artificial intelligence for my work with @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social. >> #TIME100AI time.com/time100ai I want to take this opportunity to share a few reflections on this work 👇🧵

This just in, only way to save the planet is to ask the tree burning miracle box what to do next. Experts predict the answer may cost us upwards of 3 rainforests.

🚨Keynote Alert! 🚨 Join @timnitgebru.bsky.social for “Protecting Black Futures from B(AI)S” ✨ 🗓️ Sept 11 | :clock130: 1:30–3 PM ET 🧠 Register to attend this virtual keynote address! Let’s talk AI, bias, and protecting Black futures. #BINW25 #5YearsOfBIN 🔗: tinyurl.com/BINW25